HOUSTON -- The Green Valley Estates in Fort Bend County could easily be renamed the Blue Tarp estates.

Four weeks after Ike, tarps cover at least half of the homes there.

Karen Traylor is the owner of several of those blue tarps.

Hurricane Ike ripped through her roof and soaked her ceiling and carpets.

She was catching Wednesday’s rain in buckets.

Traylor said dealing with the leaks is frustrating, and so is waiting to have them fixed.

That wait could take a while.

Right now, contractors and homeowners say they're waiting up to 30 days for an insurance adjuster to show up and an estimated 30 days more for the paperwork to be processed.

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One month after Hurricane Ike, several blue tarps still cover Karen Traylor's Fort Bend County home.

It could be a month more of blue tarps before they get the money to even start making repairs.

"We're not really hearing from the adjuster. All we've heard is that we've already submitted your claim and we're waiting for it to be approved," said Traylor.

Roofers say they’re just trying to keep up with the demand for blue plastic right now.

"We're probably sitting at 60 (projects) and we've only been here about two weeks," said roofer Steven Hughes.

Meanwhile, homeowners like Traylor are trying to understand the delays.

You see, her husband is one of those insurance adjusters who is  working overtime to get to the thousands of damaged homes.

Damaged homes number in the hundreds of thousands, according to the latest figures.

In Texas, the price tag for Hurricane Ike damage currently stands at $11.4 billion.